Sentences with phrase «not inert»

But CO2 is not inert!

Adipose tissue in a dog's body is not inert.

It's not informative, just not inert — would that the same could be said for composer Marco Beltrami's track, which is crushingly inert save the moments where he confesses that he owes his job is in large part to the collaboration of others.

While essential oils are natural, they're certainly not inert; every one of them has a weak - to strong medical action associated with it.

But silver is not inert.

The being [Sein] of a natural entity points, as such, to other actual entities causally efficacious within it, since what it is, is just this process grounded in others and not an inert matter within which process takes place.

The body is not an inert substance which is put into action by explicit acts of intending.

Moto was embarrassed by it and generally tried to act like the bottom sliver of its Android Wear smartwatch wasn't an inert, useless chunk of display housing sensors.

Not exact matches

«Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

The problem is that components can degrade, making the weapons either unstable, so they can blow up in a soldier's hand, or inert, so that soldiers can't fire the weapons, leaving them vulnerable in battle.

Scripture is not, for Wycliffe, an inert text that must be brought by interpretation into accord with theological positions.

That question, narrowly considered, reduces the patient to the level of inert matter, «a courtesan for pleasure,» not «a spouse for fruit.»

If the human mind is the sole reality, and the so - called physical world unreal, an inert, lifeless machine, it is easy to see how the barking and writhing would not be seen as manifestations and responses to pain.

Almost the only elements present in interstellar space are hydrogen and helium — and the latter, being an inert or noble gas, is not a component of life in any form known to man.

There are not enough inert (dead) elements in the universe to create one simple living organism.

The object exerts its causal influence not by acting upon the subject, but solely as being inert, stubborn fact exacting conformity.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful — corruption optimi, pessima.

Now in our experience of our own subjectivity we do not discover anything like the inert brute stuff into which classical physics attempts to analyze nature.

For Descartes the most real things about himself were his feelings and thoughts that inert things and non-human creatures do not have.

It includes the processive, societal, dynamic picture of the cosmos; it sees that we have to do with events or happenings and not with inert and static «things»; it insists on genuine freedom and readiness to accept the consequences of decisions made in that freedom; and it is prepared to see that however difficult this may seem to be, it is persuasion rather than coercion which in the long run is effective in the world.

There is a gradual loss of complexity in the organizational form until they descend entirely into inert matter, with no energy (recalling that energy is the composite, not the élan vital).

I do not take this lightly, but I refer such critics to the definition of matter above, remind them that I am trying to summarize a Bergsonian view (not entirely my own), and ask them to consider another law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy; and ask why (unless there is something dead or inert that resists the development of higher forms of complexity) should systems tend towards an equalized distribution of energy in spacetime?

The facts of science are not hard, cold, inert chunks of objective information lying about in the external world waiting to be discovered and accumulated by the industrious investigator.

I take it as granted on all sides that while the arrow is a man «made object and thus irreducibly complex, Thomas is focusing not on its manufacture but on its motion as an otherwise inert object.

Its center and essence was not blind force or some sort of cold, inert reality, but a personal God.

Certainly the female is not passive or inert.

And if the imagination of the preacher does not pierce through the chinks of formal concepts and inwardly recreate what hides there, the moral heart of the matter will remain inert.

Indeed, a feeling is first and foremost a subjective, concrete experience and not a property or attribute of some inert object, let alone something composed solely of abstract entities, whatever their degree of complexity and organization.7 In brief, then, a concrete percipient event is a feeling experience, which presupposes a body capable of experiencing feelings.

Thus in the modern conception, the physical existent as «matter» was in itself completely devoid of activity or agency — it was strictly «inert,» as Kepler was the first to characterize it; it was «movable» but could not move itself, as Newton insisted.

Modern physics supports us in our proposal that the constituents of nature are not the lifeless particles that we tend to imagine as tiny versions of inert chunks of matter.

Conway Morris is part of an increasingly prominent school in the philosophy of biology which offers a refreshingly new stance, one in which the biological universe is not merely an inert petri dish in which purely random genetic diversity andmutation have resulted by Darwinian «survival of the fittest».

Yet the world as a whole is in process and is a process; it is not a finished and settled system composed of discrete entities which are inert, changeless, static.

In the first place, he maintains that there is a certain correspondence between the intellect and inert matter, but not a congruity.

Further, value in institutions is not, as the ideologues of rationalism would have it, inert and abstract — lying there before our manipulating minds as the world is presumed to lie before the natural scientist.

The first, superficial impression is not erased by more thorough acquaintance with theological schools; many instances of self - satisfied provincialism, inert traditionalism and specious modernization tend to confirm it.

The universe is not a dark, inert set of atoms governed by physical laws that are mere projections of human effort but show that science itself indicates that the universe, indeed all things, are governed by a Unity - Law of Control and Direction, an intrinsic relationality, that God is «the sunshine of the soul» and His Son, Jesus, is our Saviour and Redeemer.

It is aspects of the psychical that can be generalized, not the apparently inert objects of experience.

It does not leave us inert, as critique so often does.

Nonsynthetic materials may also be used as inerts so long as they are not specifically prohibited.

Because the yeast is inert, people who suffer from yeast infections such as Candida do not need to worry, as it will not aggravate or cause yeast problems.

What's more, Tyvek ® is a chemically inert material that won't rot or mildew — even under the most challenging conditions.

In our process, there is a regulated quantity of inert gas flushed through each pack and therefore a raised or flat top seal on your chicken pack is not related to the «freshness» of the chicken.

Also, the can is an inert environment, so wines must be made ready to drink, but this doesn't mean it can't hold quality wines.

Milk poured from glass containers simply tastes better because glass is inert and doesn't chemically interact with the contents.

Had they not thrashed United 6 - 1 at Old Trafford then beaten an inert and unambitious United team 1 - 0 at home?

Radiopaque and radiocontrast agents typically used in ductogram, CT / CAT, MRI, MIBI scan, or PET scan diagnostic tests are extremely inert and virtually unabsorbed when taken orally, so they do not pass into the milk and it is not necessary to interrupt breastfeeding when they are used.

Thousands of dollars of circuitry sat inert before us, and the man from Nielsen whispered urgently into his radio, then turned a hangdog face to tell us the system wouldn't work because a 300 - year - old maple was blocking satellite reception, which prompted my nature - centric Captain Planet - loving kids to scream «CUT IT DOWN!»

He believed that without any parental interactions, babies would become flabby and inert and could develop rickets or marasmus (Bryder 2003,), Linda Bryder states in her book «A Voice for Mothers ``, that according to King's method the amount of care given by a parent to their child should not be lacking but rather controlled and consistent.

Further, I worry about the message being given unfairly (if not immorally) to mothers; that is, no matter who you are, or what you do, your sleeping body is no more than an inert potential lethal weapon against which neither you nor your infant has any control.

This sippy bottle is made from aluminum and has a completely inert, water - based epoxy lining that does not leach harmful chemicals.